Get Your Plaid On!

[typography font="Droid Serif" size="22" size_format="px" color="#660000"]It’s National Tartan Day![/typography]
 
Find your tartan or simply read about tartans and their history at the Scottish Tartans Authority, which is where I found this charming gentleman:

I just spent an enjoyable hour reading about history, so they’re much more than a one note organization. Did you know that tartans are at least 3,000 years old?

I may be more Sasannach than Albannach, but I do love tartans!

27 thoughts on “Get Your Plaid On!”

  1. Bitterroot

    Growing up adopted, I was told that I was fully half Scottish. I ate it up – wished on my favorite tartans, went to local Highland Games events and begged my parents to let me get/take bagpipe lessons. They signed me up for accordion. That thing sat in its box – I was pissed!

    Then I learned the information I was given was wrong. I am fully half Polish. The accordion should have been a clue. Ha!

    Still, there *may* be some Scots blood in me. (When I asked my dying birth father what “roots” were on his side, his deadpan reply was, “Germandutchscotchenglishfrenchniggeranddog.” Yeah, he was a bit of a character… :hide: ) AND since I lived more than half of my life believing I was Scottish, I think I deserve at least a condolence prize “honorary” tartan of some sort… Any Scots clans out there want to adopt me? I’d wear a kilt proudly! :D

    1. Pam Post author

      “Germandutchscotchenglishfrenchniggeranddog”

      :rofl: Aren’t we all? ;)

      My history, being adopted, is of course muddled. But some of that was cleared up when I had a DNA profile done… Doesn’t tell me much, but at least I can plot something of a course based on those who match my ‘strings’.

      OH, and I was five when my parents put an accordian in my hands! LOL! It was just not on, I can tell you that! :D

      1. Bitterroot

        Five?! You were lucky. I was thirteen! My parents were following the book, “Revenge Parenting: How to legally get your teenager’s ass kicked in seven easy steps”. :yes:

        1. Pam Post author

          I couldn’t even hold the dang thing it was so huge, let alone get my fingers into any sort of position. Not being musically inclined didn’t help. It may as well have been a lunar lander for all I knew or cared.

          To be fair, they asked me if I wanted to learn to play the accordion and I nodded. But I nodded a LOT back then… ;)

  2. patti

    Future son in law will be wearing his family tartan – full dress regalia :D

    I have a sash of that sitting right here next to me wrapped around our wedding notebook.

  5. patti

    Duncan tartan – now, if the bride were to wear her’s it would be the MacBeth tartan – of course she has more than a bit of that GermanIrishScotsEnglishSeminole thing going on herself – none of that other stuffs – but it sure did make me laugh to read it :D boy wanted to know what I was laughing at…

    (as you know, she’ll not be wearing the plaid…)

  6. ms martyr

    Only related a tiny bit. Saw a preview for the Pixar movie “Brave.” One of the archers is a Scot and when he hits the bulls eye, one of his family members flips up his kilt and moons another contestant. Pretty lame comment, I know.

    2. Mrs. Who

      I *knew* I liked Erinyes for a reason…my family too is descended from the Royal Stewarts! I keep practicing my queenly wave of the hand in case the entire UK somehow disappears and I’m next in line to inherit the throne!!!

  8. mike

    no Scot in me – Irish Danish (grandfather was Aristocrat from Denmark) Slovak Russian – basically I am a mutt

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